Dark chocolate hummus

July 20, 2014

You’re probably reading the title of this post and thinking: gross. It’s okay, I had the same reaction at first. But once the seed was planted…I just had to try making dark chocolate hummus. I brought it to a party over the weekend and it was a hit (score!)

This is the perfect party appetizer because of its unique and completely unexpected flavor. To the eyes, it looks like it would taste like a giant bowl of chocolate dip (it doesn’t.) And when I tell people it’s dark chocolate hummus, they expect it to taste like hummus (it doesn’t). It’s quite confusing to the senses!

To balance out the flavors, I recommend serving this recipe with cinnamon sugar pita chips. Apples would work too for an even healthier combo.

The flavor of this hummus is difficult to describe. It’s got a muted chocolatey taste with just a hint of sweetness and peanut butter. The texture is also perfect in part due to a trick I learned from Lindsay at Pinch of Yum. She taught me to de-shell my garbanzo beans before mixing them with everything else in order to get the creamiest hummus you can (see recipe directions below for more on this.)

Dark chocolate hummus

Recipe Type: Appetizer

Author: Lauren @ Just a Pinch

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 2 hours

Total time: 2 hours 15 mins

Serves: 12

A unique appetizer for parties. Great way to spark conversation, too!

Ingredients

1 can (15 oz) garbanzo beans (rinsed well, skins removed)

3 tablespoons maple syrup

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup peanut butter

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/3 cup milk

1.5 tablespoons dark chocolate cocoa powder

Pinch of cinnamon

Instructions

Rinse the garbanzo beans and place in a bowl. To get an extra creamy texture to your hummus, you’ll want to remove the outer shell of each bean. Super tedious? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely.

Once the beans are de-shelled and rinsed, place in the food processor with the other ingredients. You may need to add more milk depending on the texture or more sugar depending on your preferences.

Once a desired texture (and sweetness) is reached, scoop hummus into a bowl with a lid and place in the fridge for at least 2 hours.

Also, as I’ve started cooking more with chocolate, I’ve become a total chocolate snob. Because Godiva chocolate chips are the only thing available at the market down the street (for those late-night cravings, am I right?) and have been spoiled with their quality. While at another grocery store on Friday, I bought a bag of the Nestle mini chocolate chips. I took one bite when I got home and immediately checked the package to make sure they were: 1. actually chocolate 2. not stale. I do not recommend buying them – yuck! Spend the extra $$ and get a higher quality chocolate if you’re getting chips to cook with 🙂

Okay – enough complaining. Happy Sunday for those of you reading tonight (or Monday if you’re seeing this in the morning!) I hope you have a fabulous week! I’ll be back on Tuesday with another fun post 🙂

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About Lauren

Lauren Rice, MPH recently graduated from the Coordinated Dietetics Program at the University of Washington. In January 2017, she opened Nutrition Elevated, her anti-diet, #bodypositive nutrition counseling and consulting small business (www.nutrition-elevated.com).

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I'm LAUREN, and I started Just a Pinch in 2014 when I was applying to graduate school to become a registered dietitian nutritionist. In 2017, I started my own small business, Nutrition Elevated, LLC, to help share the breadth of knowledge I learned as a nutrition graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle!